Rod Strachan information

Rodney “Rod” Strachan
	Strachan in 1976
Personal information
Full name	Rodney Strachan
Nickname	"Rod"
National team	United States
Born	October 16, 1955 (age 68); Santa Monica, California
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Individual medley
Club	Anaheim Aquatics and Fullerton Area Swim Team (FAST)
College team	University of Southern California
Coach	Tom DeLong; (Foothill High); Peter Daland; (USC)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing the United States
Olympic Games
World Championships (LC)

Rodney Strachan (born October 16, 1955) is an American former high school and college competition swimmer, 1976 Olympic gold medalist, and physician with a specialization in internal medicine.^[2]

Starting at the age of eight, Rod did age group training and competition with the Sammy Lee Swim School on Anaheim's Lincoln Avenue under Swimming Hall of Fame Coach John Urbanchek who swam for and later coached the University of Michigan. When the Sammy Lee Club disbanded in 1967, Rod swam for Anaheim Aquatics under Urbanchek until he left for USC, while swimming additional high school swim practices. He returned to Anaheim Aquatics, after graduating USC, until he retired from swimming.^[3] Eventually the Anaheim Club became the Fullerton Anaheim Swim Club, still coached by Urbancheck, and Strachan continued swimming with the club shortly after Olympic trials in June of 1976, where he excelled. The club is now known as the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Team.^[4]

^ "Legendary Coach Jon Urbanchek Loves Coaching and People". ScCal Swim History. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
^ Cite error: The named reference Olympedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "Strachan, Rod, "Legendary Coach John Urbanchek Loves Coaching and People"". 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
^ McCormack, Jim, "Stirring Stretch Drive Heat Up American Trials", Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California, 18 June 1976, pg. 29

[1] "Legendary Coach Jon Urbanchek Loves Coaching and People". ScCal Swim History. 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

[Olympedia-2] Cite error: The named reference Olympedia was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Urbanchek-3] "Strachan, Rod, "Legendary Coach John Urbanchek Loves Coaching and People"". 23 June 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2023.

[4] McCormack, Jim, "Stirring Stretch Drive Heat Up American Trials", Press-Telegram, Long Beach, California, 18 June 1976, pg. 29

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